| Description |
382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
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text rdacontent |
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unmediated rdamedia |
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volume rdacarrier |
| Series |
CultureAmerica |
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Culture America.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Organic destiny -- A noisy spring: "genius?" or "fraud?" -- An alternative way to live -- Leaders, land lovers, locavores, labels, laws, and a little lunacy -- Individual organic optimization: health hopes and fears -- Organic consumers: voting with dollars and forging identities. |
| Summary |
In American Organic we see how organic growing and consumption has been everything from a practical decision, lifestyle choice, and status marker to a political deed, subversive effort, and social philosophy - and how organic production and consumption are entrenched in the lives of all Americans, whether they eat organic food or not. |
| Subject |
Natural foods -- United States -- History.
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Organic farming -- United States -- History.
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Natural foods. (OCoLC)fst01034032
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Organic farming. (OCoLC)fst01047688
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780700621330 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0700621334 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780700621583 (ebook) |
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070062158X (ebook) |
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